Multiple choice

Directions: This question presents a sentence, all or part of which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find five ways of phrasing the underlined part. The first of these repeats the original; the other four are different. If you think the original is best, choose the first answer; otherwise choose one of the others.

Although exhorted to bomb terrorist training camps in a radical nation in the Middle-East, the President refused to do so because he felt that mostly all, if not all, of the Middle East would be plunged into turmoil.

  1. do so because he felt that mostly all, if not all, of the Middle East would be plunged

  2. do it because he felt that mostly all, if not all, of the Middle East would be plunged

  3. do so because he felt that mostly all, if not all, of the Middle East would plunge

  4. do so because he felt that most, if not all, of the Middle East would be plunged

  5. do so because he felt that doing so would plunge most, if not all, of the Middle East

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E Correct answer
Explanation

The option removes the error of passive voice. Also, the option correctly uses 'most, if not all' instead of 'most all, if not all'.

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